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The Volunteer Military and the Rest of the Iceberg

Author/s: 
Eric A. Hanushek
Published Date: 
September 1977
Publication: 
Policy Sciences
Details: 
8(3)
Pages: 
pp. 343-361

With the introduction of the volunteer military, mistakes in the personnel system become more costly. Adjustment of the most perverse incentives could lead to a self-correction of many glaring problems.
[reprinted in R. Auster and B. Sears (ed.), American Re-evolution Papers and Proceedings (Tucson: University of Arizona, 1977)].

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